QuakeWake: A Novel AI-Based Early Earthquake Warning and Post-Quake Building Safety Guidance System

Dhroov V. Bharatia

2025

Abstract

Millions of people around the world suffer from earthquakes every year. This research introduces an innovative, mobile device-based approach for real-time earthquake detection and prediction. By discerning quake patterns from users’ regular usage patterns, a novel approach that prevents excessively draining battery uses an on-device neural network only when needed to detect earthquake tremors. Cloud servers running an AI module reliably predict the quake intensity and propagation pattern using signals from many users, enabling warning others who have yet to experience these tremors. It also detects buildings at high risk to reinhabit due to high relative floor displacement exceeding the building safety standards. A low-cost, affordable, and highly reliable optional adjunct device on the user’s premise captures tremors with higher accuracy than mobile devices. This enables effective building-wide earthquake warnings and eliminates fatalities due to post-earthquake building structural integrity issues. With a neural network trained with many past earthquake patterns, the mobile devices reliably detected quakes and the AI module accurately detected its propagation with 99% accuracy, warning users along its path. Moreover, the adjunct device adequately captured shifts in the building’s structure and reliably flagged the building as uninhabitable with more than 95% accuracy.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Bharatia D. (2025). QuakeWake: A Novel AI-Based Early Earthquake Warning and Post-Quake Building Safety Guidance System. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: ICAART; ISBN 978-989-758-737-5, SciTePress, pages 303-310. DOI: 10.5220/0013123200003890

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart25,
author={Dhroov Bharatia},
title={QuakeWake: A Novel AI-Based Early Earthquake Warning and Post-Quake Building Safety Guidance System},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: ICAART},
year={2025},
pages={303-310},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013123200003890},
isbn={978-989-758-737-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: ICAART
TI - QuakeWake: A Novel AI-Based Early Earthquake Warning and Post-Quake Building Safety Guidance System
SN - 978-989-758-737-5
AU - Bharatia D.
PY - 2025
SP - 303
EP - 310
DO - 10.5220/0013123200003890
PB - SciTePress